Bookmark and Reading List for Magisterium AI
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Alex
I wanted to share that the Magisterium AI has been very interesting and helpful. In particular, the quantity and helpfulness of the footnotes really helps the tool stand out against similar chatbots elsewhere.
It would be great to save the chats so I could refer to them again. Being able to read the source right in the app is great. It would be nice to be able to bookmark sources and/or build a reading list from them.
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Carissa Magbiray
it would be extremely helpful if the AI feature, which I love and use every day, could 1) keep the history 2)allow copying 3)not erase what I just searched if I click another section in the app. this can be really great but it needs to rival other ai chatgpt type tools. it's giving me great information, prayers, advice but if I can't keep it to refer back to it then I have to start all over
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Carissa Magbiray
> Can you share the sample topics you searched for using Magisterium AI?
Some examples of questions I’ve asked:
“Where did the idea of the Adoration originate?” - I’m always interested in the intersection of prayer and meditation so the Adoration comes to mind a lot
“What instruments or music is appropriate for a Mass?” - I was curious about the differences between high and low mass which I didn’t even know existed until this question.
“Why do priests sing certain parts of the Eucharistic liturgy?” - My priest is not a great singer :)
“Where does the concept of Ordo Amoris come from?” - This one has been in the news and I wanted to know how to answer friends asking me
“What is the scriptural basis for the seal of confession?” - Again, trying to help my friends understand why it’s a good thing priests have a complete seal on the sacrament.
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Carissa Magbiray
> Can you specify how Magisterium AI specifically differed from the other chatbots you've tried?
I’ve used Claude for a lot of religious questions. The answers are fine and Claude provides footnotes but Claude is generally depending on more public, well-known sources which are less directly in the Catholic Sacred Tradition. Whereas, Magisterium AI has deep links to papal letters, encyclicals, and even dissertations about early Church father writings. The footnotes give me an entry point to those documents which can often be daunting for a non-academic. I experience a lot of my faith through extensive reading and these answers from Magisterium AI are a great launching point. The answers from Claude are more of like, “Here’s the answer” and there’s not much room for further research.
When compared to Grace, Magisterium AI is VASTLY superior in the quality, depth, breadth, and detail of its answers. Grace is a little too simplistic. It seems designed for folks very new to the faith or who aren’t that engaged in reading primary sources. That’s fine but I prefer the deeper, more rooted approach of Magisterium AI.
That said, I think it would be cool for there to be a toggle where a user could ask Magisterium AI to answer in one style or another. Give me a succinct, quick answer or give me a longer, detailed, footnoted answer that begs for further research. I use this approach with Claude sometimes and I like that it helps me tailor the response to what I’m trying to get out of the interaction.